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...bubblegum candidate" whose membership in Americans for Democratic Action means involvement "in a powerful leftwing and underground activity." When he is accused of unfair tactics, Big Red merely snorts: "You can't hit Joe Clark below the belt because he is all belly and no head." Midnightly, Jim Duff can still be found shaking hands in hotel lobbies or sweating away on the next day's speeches, which he insists on writing himself...
...Duff's is a lonely fight, especially since he is getting little help from members of the regular organization. (One notable exception: State Chairman George Bloom, a Grundy follower, who is doing his best.) Only last week was Duff able to wangle enough money from the organization controlled state committee for his first 15-minute statewide television appearance. But just as important as his trouble with the machine is the fact that Jim Duff got off to a Labor Day campaign start against a popular, appealing Democrat who has been working hard and effectively since Lincoln's Birthday...
...home tossing off a bourbon and water with the boys in the back room, talking earnestly and persuasively to small groups of do-gooders, or delivering the sort of spread-eagle oratory that Clark himself sometimes calls "ranting and roaring." His most effective issue so far has been Jim Duff's Senate absenteeism. Pointing to an empty chair on the speaker's platform, Clark cries: "That's where the junior Senator from Pennsylvania is supposed to be sitting, but he is almost never there. Do we want our chair empty? I'd like...
Presidential Rescue. If Joe Clark is to sit in Duff's chair, it will be despite a tongue" that sometimes lands him in trouble. In Pittsburgh, the home town of patronage-powerful Mayor David Lawrence, Clark went out of his way to denounce Pennsylvania's spoils system as run both by Republicans and by Governor George Leader's Democratic administration. But such is the unity of Pennsylvania's Democratic Party (a unity due in large measure to the enjoyment of the patronage that Joe Clark derides) that Democrat Lawrence found himself able to laugh the whole...
...Pittsburgh last week, in a determined attempt to rescue Jim Duff, came Gettysburg Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, whose own popularity remains high in Pennsylvania. After Ike's blue-ribbon endorsement (the warmest of the campaign to date), things looked somewhat brighter for Jim Duff, who has never yet lost an election. Republican headquarters in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh reported a surge of financial contributions and volunteer workers. State Chairman Bloom heaved an audible sigh of relief about the improved state prospects. But some of the Grundy boys were still following after their oldtime leader (1904-21), Boies Penrose, who believed firmly...